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Cities and Flooding: A Guide to Integrated Urban Flood Risk Management for the 21st Century
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The Flood Risk Management Guide as mentioned in this paper is a state-of-the-art guide for decision and policy makers, technical specialists, central, regional and local government officials and concerned stakeholders in the community sector, civil society and non-governmental organizations, and the private sector.Abstract:
The guide serves as a primer for decision and policy makers, technical specialists, central, regional and local government officials, and concerned stakeholders in the community sector, civil society and non-governmental organizations, and the private sector. The Guide embodies the state-of-the art on integrated urban flood risk management. The Guide starts with a summary for policy makers which outlines and describes the key areas which policy makers need to be knowledgeable about to create policy directions and an integrated strategic approach for urban flood risk management. The core of the Guide consists of seven chapters, organized as: understanding flood hazard; understanding flood impacts; integrated flood risk management (structural measures and non-structural measures); evaluating alternative flood risk management options: tools for decision makers; implementing integrated flood risk management; and conclusion. Each chapter starts with a full contents list and a summary of the chapter for quick reference.read more
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Comparative flood damage model assessment: towards a European approach
Brenden Jongman,Heidi Kreibich,Heiko Apel,José I. Barredo,Paul D. Bates,Luc Feyen,A. Gericke,Jeffrey Neal,Jeroen C. J. H. Aerts,Philip J. Ward +9 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a qualitative and quantitative assessment of seven flood damage models, using two case studies of past flood events in Germany and the United Kingdom, and conclude that care needs to be taken when using aggregated land use data for flood risk assessment, and that it is essential to adjust asset values to the regional economic situation and property characteristics.
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A framework for global river flood risk assessments
TL;DR: In this article, the authors proposed a framework for global flood risk assessment for river floods, which can be applied in current conditions, as well as in future conditions due to climate and socioeconomic changes.
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Declining vulnerability to river floods and the global benefits of adaptation
Brenden Jongman,Hessel Winsemius,Jeroen C. J. H. Aerts,Erin Coughlan de Perez,Erin Coughlan de Perez,Maarten van Aalst,Wolfgang Kron,Philip J. Ward +7 more
TL;DR: It is found that rising per-capita income coincided with a global decline in vulnerability between 1980 and 2010, which is reflected in decreasing mortality and losses as a share of the people and gross domestic product exposed to inundation.
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